In Solr 4.9 there is a feature called RankQueries, that allows you to plugin your own ranking collector. So, if you wanted to write a ranking/sorting collector that used a thread per segment, you could cleanly plug it in.
Joel Bernstein Search Engineer at Heliosearch On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 9:39 AM, david.w.smi...@gmail.com < david.w.smi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Robert Krüger <krue...@lesspain.de> > wrote: > > > Or will I have to set up distributed search to achieve that? > > > Yes — you have to shard it to achieve that. The shards could be on the > same node. > > There were some discussions this year in JIRA about being able to do > thread-per-segment but it’s not quite there yet. FWIW I think it would be > a nice option for some use-cases (like yours). > > ~ David Smiley > Freelance Apache Lucene/Solr Search Consultant/Developer > http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley >